BWYC Family and Friends

We finished second at Wadewitz. Pontchartrain won. Not sure, but I think we were tied.

Gilly had a questionable start but fixed it quickly & won the first race. Harry sailed second and had a little better start and finished second. Seeing the trend here, Randy sailed third and figured the bad start thing was the way to go, so he was over early and had to go way back. He was in second at the first mark, way out in front of the third place boat, but couldn't catch the leaders.

Katherine sailed fourth and fought hard to push Pontchartrain back to third, but in doing so, she lost them and finished fourth about one foot behind David Bolyard.

I sailed last and after spending three of the races guarding our ice chest (very closely), I was ready to pounce on Pontch. We kinda lost track of the time and didn't have the greatest of starts, but managed to get ahead of them at the weather mark - which I proceeded to run over.

The 360 cost us Pontch, but we ran 'em down and got by them at the leeward mark. We pushed them back to 6th, but didn't have enough runway to catch enough boats to win the regatta.

It sure was a pleasure getting out there, thinking about winning a race, not post Katrina.

Many thanks to Fairhope for running the event - by the way, they don't have a club either.

Bish